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The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today!

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• The Region (
• The Neighborhood, the District and the Corridor (
• The Street, the Block and the Building (
• Planning the American Dream (
• Establishing the Urban Pattern Seaside Laguna West Kentlands South Brentwood Village Bamberton Windsor Communications Hill Rosa Vista A New Village in the Suburbs Wellington Reconstructing the Urban Fabric Cite Internationale Downtown Hayward Riviera Beach Rio Vista West Downcity Providence Orange Tree Courts Atlantic Center Mashpee Commons Playa Vista Jackson-Taylor Highland District Clinton Downtown Los Angeles The Architecture of Community (
• Project Information
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• About the author

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Library Journal Review

The New Urbanism is a movement that seeks to restore a civil realm to urban planning and a sense of place to our communities. It is a tangible response to the failed Modernist planning that has resulted in unchecked suburban sprawl, slavish dependence on the automobile, and the abandonment and decay of our cities. Katz, who heads a marketing and design firm, brings together in this informative and accessible book the voices and case studies of the young architects and planners who practice the New Urbanism--Peter Calthorpe, Andres Duany, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, among them. They gear their designs to the scale of the pedestrian and seek to promote a symbiotic relationship between urban development and public transportation. An often published example of this movement is the community of Seaside, Florida. Extensively illustrated with plans, diagrams, and color photographs and renderings, this highly instructive book is a must for architecture and urban planning collections, and suitable for general readers.-- Thomas P.R. Nugent, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

One of the contributors to this book declares that the "new urbanism" represents "a new chapter in the history of American city planning," one that is confronting such central issues as expensive housing, suburban sprawl, and social segregation "with an energy and creativity that had eluded planners until now." He claims too much. The ideas put forth here are largely derivative from such early landmarks in urban planning as Clarence Arthur Perry's neighborhood planning concept and new town development. As a model for the approach suggested, Florida's Seaside projects a population of only 2,000, hardly the stuff to turn around the vast array of problems in America's metropolitian regions. Nonetheless, this revival of admirable principles of planning that stress neighborhood and pedestrian orientation while still holding up the ideal of creating socially and physically diverse communities is a welcome addition to planning literature. Beautifully presented examples of the approach, including ideas for revitalizing downtown Los Angeles as well as actual suburban developments in progress or already constructed, confirm that a movement capable of making a significant impact on planning and design is under way. General readers; professionals and practitioners. H. Gillette Jr.; George Washington University

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Peter Katz is a design and marketing consultant based in San Francisco, California, and Seattle, Washington. He has directed real estate-related projects throughout the U.S. and the Pacific Rim. Katz studied architecture and graphic design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, receiving a bachelor of fine arts degree and the Royal Society of Arts (London) honor award upon graduation. Katz lectures frequently on urban issues to university audiences and citizens' groups.